Job summary
This is a permanent new role within the Adult Mental Health Services Care Group and is an exciting opportunity for an experienced mental health clinician to step into an impactful and challenging leadership role.
The successful candidate will bring their significant clinical experience and creative leadership to the developing multi-disciplinary clinical leadership team to meet the changing needs of our patients.
Main duties of the job
This new role will involve working with local and systems partners at an operational level to ensure the organisation can meet its responsibilities to provide effective optimal and safe care to our patients by developing capacity in safe patient step-down, urgent care offers and complex discharge systems. This ensures that patients who need care community mental health service in-put are able to access service in easily, treated as efficiently as possible and then transferred/discharged as soon as possible, adopting the ethos of right care, right time and right place.
About us
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful applicant will be responsible for engaging across NHFT services as well as services delivered by partnership organisations including local authorities and the voluntary sector.
The role will be pivotal in proactive planning for the safe transfer of care for all adult mental health inpatients and supporting times of peak demand, when the system and services are operating at a level of escalation. This will include working with services leads to develop robust plans, unblock bottlenecks in service provision to support flow, and identifying and coordinating pilot innovations to drive improved flow.
For an informal discussion, please contact Paula Vaughan, Care Group Director via email paula.vaughan@nottshc.nhs.uk or Dan Cox-Stone, Associate Director of Nursing at daniel.cox-stone@nottshc.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful applicant will be responsible for engaging across NHFT services as well as services delivered by partnership organisations including local authorities and the voluntary sector.
The role will be pivotal in proactive planning for the safe transfer of care for all adult mental health inpatients and supporting times of peak demand, when the system and services are operating at a level of escalation. This will include working with services leads to develop robust plans, unblock bottlenecks in service provision to support flow, and identifying and coordinating pilot innovations to drive improved flow.
For an informal discussion, please contact Paula Vaughan, Care Group Director via email paula.vaughan@nottshc.nhs.uk or Dan Cox-Stone, Associate Director of Nursing at daniel.cox-stone@nottshc.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oRegistered Professional with significant patient-facing experience in acute Mental Health services
- oEducated to Master's degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in a specialised area
- oExtensive knowledge and experience of Quality Improvement in mental health services
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant senior management experience within a complex health and social care environment
- oExperience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- oDemonstrable experience of implementing innovative solutions in partnership with staff, which are designed to improve services
- oExperience of developing and working with a complex and multi - skilled workforce
- oExperience of identifying local health needs and translating these into service priorities, aligning people, structure, systems and processes
- oExperience of effective workload management, deployment of staff and individual performance management
- oExperience of owning and leading major change successfully
Knowledge
Essential
- oUnderstanding of how to develop multi-disciplinary teams and working together to meet complex patient needs
- oDetailed knowledge of effective governance in complex organisations
- oDemonstrable experience of effective partnership working with other organisations at a senior level
Skills
Essential
- oAbility to identify, evaluate and support the continuous development of services
- oAbility to create a climate of performance delivery and accountability
- oAbility to resolve complex problems through demonstrable decision -making skills including the evaluation of decisions made
- oAbility to think flexible and innovatively
- oExcellent person-centered, interpersonal and communications skills and experience of writing papers and correspondence at Programme board level
- oAbility to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- oProvide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders
- oAbility to deploy a range of influencing skills across internal and external stakeholders to deliver transformational change
- oAbility to establish mutual trust, through both honesty and integrity
- oAbility to role model behaviours that inspire and develop a culture of can-do proactivity
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oRegistered Professional with significant patient-facing experience in acute Mental Health services
- oEducated to Master's degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in a specialised area
- oExtensive knowledge and experience of Quality Improvement in mental health services
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant senior management experience within a complex health and social care environment
- oExperience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- oDemonstrable experience of implementing innovative solutions in partnership with staff, which are designed to improve services
- oExperience of developing and working with a complex and multi - skilled workforce
- oExperience of identifying local health needs and translating these into service priorities, aligning people, structure, systems and processes
- oExperience of effective workload management, deployment of staff and individual performance management
- oExperience of owning and leading major change successfully
Knowledge
Essential
- oUnderstanding of how to develop multi-disciplinary teams and working together to meet complex patient needs
- oDetailed knowledge of effective governance in complex organisations
- oDemonstrable experience of effective partnership working with other organisations at a senior level
Skills
Essential
- oAbility to identify, evaluate and support the continuous development of services
- oAbility to create a climate of performance delivery and accountability
- oAbility to resolve complex problems through demonstrable decision -making skills including the evaluation of decisions made
- oAbility to think flexible and innovatively
- oExcellent person-centered, interpersonal and communications skills and experience of writing papers and correspondence at Programme board level
- oAbility to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- oProvide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders
- oAbility to deploy a range of influencing skills across internal and external stakeholders to deliver transformational change
- oAbility to establish mutual trust, through both honesty and integrity
- oAbility to role model behaviours that inspire and develop a culture of can-do proactivity
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
